Kenichi Bamba - President, Bridge for Fukushima
Kenichi Bamba is the President and Founder of Bridge for Fukushima, which provides hands-on support to NPOs and social entrepreneurs, promotes tourism to the affected area, and the community revitalization of Minamisoma. In 2000, after working for a bank for six years, Mr. Bamba moved to The Association of Medical Doctors of Asia (AMDA), an international NGO and worked in Cambodia, Bangladesh and Zambia. He also worked as an in-house consultant in the Cambodia office of the Food and Agriculture Organization. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he worked on agricultural projects in Ethiopia and Kenya with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and started a consulting firm focused on BoP and project implementation in developing countries.